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Giuliani Inches Closer To Official Announcement
WCBSTV.COM ^ | 12 FEBRUARY 2007 | AP

Posted on 02/12/2007 5:48:55 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Moves Closer To Full-Fledged Presidential Run

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON -- Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday defended the Iraq war and criticized Al Gore's global-warming movie.

As for his presidential ambitions, Giuliani coyly inched closer to a formal announcement.

"I am 100 percent committed," he said. "That official part, I still have to do a formal announcement. But we'll figure out how to do that. My idea is that I'm going to try to announce this in 100 different places."

Giuliani, a Republican, said he supports efforts to move California's 2008 presidential primary from June to February, a shift that would allow him to compete outside of conservative early voting states where his stands on gays, guns and abortion have been viewed as too liberal.

A number of other states are also considering moving up their primaries.

In a wide-ranging speech, Giuliani emphasized his experience as mayor during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his record on reducing crime, unemployment and other problems in the city.

He said the war in Iraq is crucial to combating global terrorism.

"What America needs is probably a reminder of why this is happening and why the sacrifice of those American lives, which is heartbreaking, is necessary," he said. "It's necessary because having a stable situation in Iraq will quicken our ability to defeat terrorism."

Pulling out of the country too quickly, he said, will allow terrorism to "get a home and a headquarters attached to Iran and Syria."

When asked about former Vice President Al Gore's Oscar-nominated documentary about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," Giuliani criticized the film as lacking in solutions.

Giuliani said he believes global warming is occurring but is not sure how much is caused by humans, and he suggested the U.S. should look at expanding its use of nuclear power and other alternative energy sources.

He also said the U.S. health care crisis must be solved by "preserving the private, competitive market-driven nature of health care."

"That's a much better solution than a topdown government plan," he said.


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To: My2Cents

"I've concluded this gun fetish is Freudian."

Actually its Jeffersonian.

Go ahead and calls names if that makes you feel good.

But silly names will not lead me to compromise on civil rights.

Rudy is a Rino and has forfeited my vote by virtue of his embrace of gun control.


121 posted on 02/12/2007 8:44:26 PM PST by dman4384
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To: Doninnj
Rudy decreased the size of NYC government as Mayor.

Is THAT what you call a 32% increase in spending, twice the rate of inflation? Gosh, who knew?

Rudy cut crime overall and cut the murder rate by 70%.

Bratton did that, not Rudy.

Rudy was appointed twice by Ronald Reagan to the Justice Department.

And this qualifies him as President?

Rudy:" I have a very, very strong view that for this country to work, for our freedoms to be protected, judges have to interpret not invent the Constitution."

Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine. - Rudy Giuliani

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it. - Rudy Giuliani

122 posted on 02/12/2007 8:44:55 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser: Making fascism fashionable in Kaleefornia, one charade at a time.)
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To: Peach
that I fully expected Rudy to get a lot of the same people Reagan got - you know - those Reagan Democrats and moderates.

You did say that. Sounds like very risky business to me. A lot is going to depend on events no one can foresee; specifically the wars and future terrorist attacks on us.

123 posted on 02/12/2007 8:47:54 PM PST by don-o (Duncan Hunter for President. Inform yourself. You won't have to hold your nose!)
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To: Peach

Newt is a tremendous writer and has a rare gift for organizing his thoughts as well as his agenda.

But he lacks the background, charisma and charm that is needed to be President. I believe he would make one of the best Secretary's of State or Attorney's General that this country has ever seen, however.


124 posted on 02/12/2007 8:49:36 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (" Judge not and thou shalt not be judged")
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Newt is very, very smart. Brilliant actually. But he talks before he thinks sometimes and he contradicts himself and then pretends it never happened.

And what is with this buddying up with Hillary? If the FBI file she has on him that bad?


125 posted on 02/12/2007 8:51:05 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: don-o

Elections are risky and things happen that have unforseen consequences.

Anyway, you may want to read this entire article; it was interesting:

Among self-identified Republicans, Giuliani scored 71.7, ahead of both McCain and Newt Gingrich; among White Evangelicals/Born-again Christians, he scored 66.3, 8 points better than George W. Bush.

A Survey USA poll taken last summer positing head-to-head contests in all 50 states between all leading contenders showed McCain and Giuliani beating Hillary Clinton in electoral landslides, 351 to 187 and 354 to 184, both holding almost all the red Bush states, flipping the blue states of Pennsylvania and Michigan, and breaking up the Democratic entrenchments in New England and in the Far West.

Both "won" in Oregon, Connecticut, Maine, and Rhode Island; McCain, the reformer from the open spaces of Arizona, won the Birkenstock states of Washington, Minnesota, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Giuliani shook loose New Jersey (which was hit very hard on 9/11), and held on to Florida, which flipped to Hillary against John McCain.

In a CBS News poll released early this year, the Metro Republicans (McCain and Giuliani) beat the conventional Democrats (John Edwards, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton) by double digits among independents, and have much lower unfavorable ratings among those in the opposite party. Polls taken almost two years out are of course not to be taken to the bank.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/273awjiu.asp?pg=1


126 posted on 02/12/2007 8:53:14 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Peach

Mark for later. Bedtime for don-o


127 posted on 02/12/2007 8:54:57 PM PST by don-o (Duncan Hunter for President. Inform yourself. You won't have to hold your nose!)
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To: My2Cents

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." ~Sigmund Freud, "General Introduction to Psychoanalysis"


128 posted on 02/12/2007 8:58:10 PM PST by stockstrader ("Where government advances--and it advances relentlessly--freedom is imperiled"-Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: potlatch

129 posted on 02/12/2007 8:58:17 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: potlatch

Good job, potlatch! Can I use it sometimes, since you're identified as the originator?


130 posted on 02/12/2007 8:58:48 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: FreeReign
National Review doesn't give a picture date. But the suit is dated? :)

LOL...ohh yesss just a bit.

131 posted on 02/12/2007 8:59:20 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Peach
Newt is probably playing the World's smartest woman like an Italian fiddle, if you ask me. He knows how to get into her head so he can later use it against her in some way.

It's just a guess, but something is brewing with her and it involves the rivalry between the Soros/Spielberg hollywood bunch and the East Coast Kennedy Elite establishment.

Obama is right in the middle of the two waring factions.
132 posted on 02/12/2007 9:01:31 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (" Judge not and thou shalt not be judged")
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To: Peach

Welcome to use it Peach, go to TinyPic.com and get a new url for it. That's my Photobucket account rather than Domania.


133 posted on 02/12/2007 9:02:23 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch

Thank you, potlatch. I think it's great!


134 posted on 02/12/2007 9:03:33 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: devolve; Peach

Thanks Peach. The funny thing is that I used several different heads but some look younger than others, lol!


135 posted on 02/12/2007 9:05:03 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch

I noticed the difference in heads! I'm sure Rudy appreciates that sometimes he looks younger :-)


136 posted on 02/12/2007 9:08:19 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: potlatch; Peach
LOL!


137 posted on 02/12/2007 9:10:43 PM PST by devolve ( ........upload images free & fast at tinypic.com or Photobucket or Imagecave)
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To: devolve

I get dizzy watching that one :-)


138 posted on 02/12/2007 9:11:37 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
But he lacks the background, charisma and charm that is needed to be President.

I am not a supporter of Newt, but this post is characteristically total hooey. Newt has far more background in international politics than anyone running, including my preferred candidate Duncan Hunter. His experience as speaker has left him an intimate understanding of both the revenue and spending side of government as respects every department. As for charisma and charm, why do you think he was hired at Fox News, because he was dull?

139 posted on 02/12/2007 9:20:07 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser: Making fascism fashionable in Kaleefornia, one charade at a time.)
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To: NormsRevenge
FR is not representative of the greater American populace.

This forum was just as fractured the last time around and came back together; more or less. FR will NEVER again be as all together, as it was when Clinton was president. Even IF *spit* Hillary is elected, blame for such a catastrophe will probably keep it separated/Balkanized; if recent history is any indication.

"Be true to the principles it was founded on.............."? Abolishing slavery? LOL

Look, if you want Lincoln, Silent Cal or Reagan, become a grave robber; you aren't going to get a replacement. Times change, problems change, and remember, Ike was NO Goldwater; for all that and Barry lost in a massive landslide.

140 posted on 02/12/2007 9:33:20 PM PST by nopardons
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